Iran leads MidEast condemnation of "savage" Britain

A member of Iran's parliament, Hossein Ebrahimi, told the
semi-official Fars news agency on Tuesday that Britain should
alow a delegation of human rights monitors to investigate the
situation in its troubled cities.

In Iran's ally Syria, where Britain's foreign ministry has
said President Bashar al-Assad has lost legitimacy by killing
demonstrators, state-run television repeatedly showed footage of
a policeman chasing and knocking a man down.

Syrian authorities say they are combating armed "terrorist
groups", blaming them for the deaths of 500 soldiers and police
and saying they are also responsible for the civilian deaths.
Rights groups say 1,600 people have been killed in the
crackdown.

In Libya, where Britain is involved in a military campaign
against Gaddafi after his forces turned on an anti-government
movement earlier this year, a government spokesman said Cameron
should step down.

"Cameron has lost his legitimacy and must go... after the
massive popular protests that reject him and his government,
especially after the violent police repression unleashed by his
government against peaceful protesters... to force the British
people to accept a government it rejects," Khalid Ka'im, a
foreign ministry spokesman, told the official Jana new agency.

"The international community (should) not stand with arms
folded in the face of this gross aggression against the rights
of the British people, who are demanding their right to rule
their country," he was quoted as saying.
(Reporting by Mitra Amiri in Tehran, Dominic Evans in Beirut,
Souhail Karam in Rabat,; Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by
Gareth Jones)